News: brief announcements, events, public opinion, reports, actual situations.
Current Affairs: a kind of suggestion including practical announcements other than news, documents, discussion, analysis and so on.
Information: daily information or reference such as weather forecast, consumer guide, medical assistance and so on.
Sport: sports related programs.
Education: educational and cultural information.
Drama: all kinds of radio concert and serial drama.
Cultures: all aspects of national or local culture including religious events, philosophy, social science, language, theatre, and so on.
Science: programs on natural science and technology
Varied Speech: popular programs such as quiz, entertainment, private interview, comedy, satire and so on.
About DAB
With this unit you can receive and listen to Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) programmes. DAB uses digital, not analogue signals, resulting in near
Digital radio is broadcast as groups of data called ensembles or multiplexes. Each multiplex can contain a number of stations (services) and each station contains a primary service and can contain secondary services as illustrated in the following diagram.
DAB SIGNAL
Pop Music: program on commercial, practical and popular songs, and sale volume of discs, etc.
Rock Music: practical modern music generally composed and played by young musicians.
Easy Listening: popular music usually lasting for less than 5 minutes.
Light Classsics M: classical music, instrumental music, chorus, and light music favored by
Serious Classics: orchestra including great operas, symphony, chamber music and so on.
Other Music: other music styles (Rhythm & Blues, Reggae, etc.)
Weather & Metr: weather reports, forecast
BBC
National
DAB
BBC Radio 4
Parliament
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Finance: financial reports, commerce, trading
Children’s Progs: children’s programs
Social Affairs: social affairs
Religion: religious programs
Phone In: program in which the public expresses its view by phone.
Travel & Touring: travel reports
Leisure & Hobby: programs concerning recreational activities
Jazz Music: jazz music
Country Music: country music
National Music: national music
Oldies Music: music from the
Folk Music: folk music
Documentary: documentaries
Alarm Test
Each multiplex is transmitted in a set frequency range and received by this unit for decoding. You can receive multiplexes broadcast in the
Multiplexes and stations have labels (names) that are used to identify them. Instead of needing to know the particular frequency of your favourite broadcast, you can simply select the station name. Secondary services and additional data such as text or multiplex info are also available.
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